The discovery of a new species of the manzanita plant found only in San Luis Obispo County could challenge the controversial ...

Here, the authors use genomic and DNA-barcoding data from this toad to document its complex evolutionary history, two distinct species, and potential historic dispersal assisted by humans.

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A recent study examining future water demands in the Wabash headwaters predicts a slight increase in use over the next 50 years, but some environmental groups say it overlooked the impact of new ...

Templeton said this winter has been abnormally dry for southern areas of the basin like Arizona and New Mexico, but northern areas have received normal precipitation. That snow, falling as far ...

Scientists found a young dark-colored creature in Somaliland and discovered a new species, a study said and photo shows. Photo from Yasin Yusuf via Unsplash At first glance, the young creature ...

Loria and her colleagues reclassified them as the “classic” Sydney funnel-web (Atrax robustus), from the Central Coast and Sydney Basin ... Boy—is a totally new species.

Rather than a new species, Sharpe’s team suspects the fossil represents a known, albeit manipulated, mosasaur. Its teeth are similar to those of juvenile mosasaurs named Carinodens and Globidens ...

But a new study hints that maybe we aren’t so special. A million years ago, researchers have found, an extinct species of human relatives known as Homo erectus thrived in a harsh desert ...